Tim Edwards wrote:
> On 05/03/10 15:16, Mark Stodola wrote:
>   
>>>   
>>>       
>> Tim,
>>
>> I think you are confusing sysfs with environment variables.  the %E{key}
>> is used for environment variables.  The serial number is a SYSFS
>> attribute.  Try changing %E{serial} to %s{serial} and see if it works.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Mark
>>
>>     
>
> That didn't work unfortunately, my rules file now looks like this:
> KERNEL=="sd*", SUBSYSTEMS=="scsi", SYMLINK+="disknumber-%s{serial}"
>
> Any other ideas?
>
> Tim
>   
It works here, I just made a /etc/udev/rules.d/10-test.rules file with 
your above line.
Next I ran 'udevcontrol reload_rules'.  I then connected my Kingston USB 
drive and /dev/disknumber-5B7A1000021E appeared.

Do you have any other custom rules that are mangling this one?

Cheers,
Mark

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